Occupational data quality, coverage and availability has come on leaps and bounds over the last 20 to 30 years, and since the development of O*NET. O*NET marked a major in advance in several ways: It combines a very comprehensive set…
Continue ReadingThe development of the socio-technical approach offered a new paradigm of work design and development1. It is an approach which is under-pinned by a number of principles2: Work systems focus: rather than focus on individual jobs, the approach regards the…
Continue Reading“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” Peter Drucker The last 70 or so years has seen the development and codification of organisation-wide processes to drive sustained improvement. Generally, these improvement processes have been called…
Continue ReadingWhen seeking to understand the factors which drive innovation and productivity, several factors are usually cited. These factors include lack of patents, poor capacity to innovate, too few knowledge intensive workers, and a lack of innovative entrepreneurs.1 But perhaps you…
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